Characterization of recombinant YakC of Schizosaccharomyces pombe showing YakC defines a new family of aldo-keto reductases.

abstract：:Haematopoiesis and blood vessel formation are closely associated, with several molecules employed by both systems. Recently, vasohibin-1 (VASH1), an endothelium-derived negative feedback regulator of angiogenesis, has been isolated and characterized. VASH1 is induced by VEGF or bFGF in endothelial cells (ECs) and inhi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Naito H,Kidoya H,Sato Y,Takakura N

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for preparation of pyridylamino (PA-) derivatives of O-linked sugar chains from glycoproteins was developed. A glycopeptide containing O-linked Gal beta 1-3GalNAc was prepared from fetuin and treated with anhydrous hydrazine followed by N-acetylation of free amino groups. Sugar chains released were pyridylami...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuraya N,Hase S

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LipB, the lipase activator protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa TE3285, was overproduced in Escherichia coli, and purified 4.9-fold over the crude extract in the presence of SDS. The purified LipB reactivated the lipase from P. aeruginosa TE3285 denatured with guanidine hydrochloride, and its reactivation did not involve...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibata H,Kato H,Oda J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) plays a key role in the transcription regulation of many prokaryotic genes. Upon the binding of cyclic AMP, CRP is allosterically activated, binds to target DNA sites, and interacts with RNA polymerase. Although the protein-protein interaction between CRP and RNA polymerase is known t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lee TW,Won HS,Park SH,Kyogoku Y,Lee BJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endogenous inhibitor of calcium-activated neutral protease (CANP), which was isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle with chemically drastic pretreatments, comprised major (high-molecular-weight form, HMW-inhibitor) and minor (low-molecular-weight form, LMW-inhibitor) components. HMW-inhibitor was purified to homogene...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura M,Inomata M,Hayashi M,Imahori K,Kawashima S

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe cross-linking conditions for myosin subfragment-1 and actin with 1-ethyl-3-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]carbodiimide, with which the compositions of cross-linked species can be altered. The specific Mg-ATPase activity of cross-linked subfragment-1 in these preparations was almost the same in spite of the diffe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major lipid class in the Harderian glands of the Mongolian gerbil was investigated. The IR and 1H-NMR spectra suggested that it was a wax-like compound. Fatty acids present were capric, lauric, myristic, palmitic, stearic, arachidic, and behenic acids in ratios of 3.0%, 16.3%, 16.5%, 29.5%, 5.1%, 16.4%, and 9.8%, re...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Otsuru O,Otsuka H,Kasama T,Seyama Y,Sakai T,Yohro T

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An NAD(P)H-dependent C-nitrosoreductase was purified 90 fold from porcine heart cytosol fraction by ammonium sulfate fractionation, gel filtration with Sephadex G-100, ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-50, and affinity chromatography on 5'-AMP-Sepharose. The enzyme had no aldehyde reductase activity and s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Horie S,Ogura Y

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F-Actin was digested with alpha-chymotrypsin in 6 M urea, and two peptide fragments from subdomain 4 of actin molecule [Kabsch, W., Mannherz, H.G., Suck, D., Pai, E.F., & Holmes K.C. (1990) Nature 347, 37-44] were purified by reverse-phase HPLC and Sephadex G-50 gel filtration. The peptide fragments were identified as...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hori K,Morita F

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-positive thermophilic Bacillus species contain cytochrome caa3-type cytochrome c oxidase as their main terminal oxidase in the respiratory chain. To identify alternative oxidases, we isolated several mutants from B. stearothermophilus defective in the caa3-type oxidase activity [Sakamoto, J. et al (1996) FEMS Mic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakamoto J,Handa Y,Sone N

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion-exchange chromatography (IEC) is the most frequently used chromatographic technique for the separation of proteins and peptides. In this article, the effects of urea on IEC separation of kiwifruit actinidin, egg white and urinary proteins were examined. The purity and relative amount of each protein in different c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Khademi F,Mostafaie A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CEL-III is a haemolytic lectin, which has two beta-trefoil domains (domains 1 and 2) and a beta-sheet-rich domain (domain 3). In domain 3 (residues 284-432), there is a hydrophobic region containing two alpha-helices (H8 and H9, residues 317-357) and a loop between them, in which alternate hydrophobic residues, especi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hisamatsu K,Tsuda N,Goda S,Hatakeyama T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the mRNA differential display technique and Western blot analysis, the present study demonstrates that induction of KAR2 occurs when misfolded membrane-bound cytochrome P450, mutated in its cytosolically exposed domain, is expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Using various KAR2 promoter constructs in front of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Zimmer T,Ogura A,Ohta A,Takagi M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A very rapid hemolysis was found to be caused by active oxygen species produced by a hypoxanthine-xanthine oxidase system with very low concentrations of hypoxanthine. The addition of superoxide dismutase or catalase inhibited the hemolysis, indicating that O2- and H2O2 participate in this system. The extent of erythr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Taniguchi M,Aikawa M,Sakagami T

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of rice bran agglutinin (RBA) on human monoblastic leukemia U937 cells were examined in comparison with those of wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and Viscum album agglutinin (VAA). These lectins inhibit cell growth, and several lines of evidence indicate that the growth inhibition is caused by the induction of apop...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyoshi N,Koyama Y,Katsuno Y,Hayakawa S,Mita T,Ohta T,Kaji K,Isemura M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that the 9 S estrogen receptor (ER) could be reconstituted from purified ER and purified heat shock protein 90 (hsp 90). So, we investigated the role of hsp 90 in the binding of purified ER to an estrogen responsive element (ERE) by using the reconstitution system. ER purified from calf uterus sho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inano K,Curtis SW,Korach KS,Omata S,Horigome T

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have purified L-kynurenine 3-monooxygenase from pig liver mitochondria using a procedure involving seven steps composed of (1) preparation of mitochondrial outer membrane, (2) preparation of the zwitterionic detergent, 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propane sulfonate (Chaps) insoluble outer membrane mater...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Uemura T,Hirai K

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2+-sensitive ATPase activity of rabbit skeletal myofibrils disappeared completely after treatment with a solution containing CDTA, a strong divalent cation chelator, at a low ionic strength. A gel electrophoretic study revealed that all troponin C and about half of myosin light chain 2 were removed from the myof...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morimoto S,Ohtsuki I

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen phosphorylase (GP) is biologically active as a dimer of identical subunits. Each subunit has two distinct maltooligosaccharide binding sites: a storage site and a catalytic site. Our characterization of the properties of these sites suggested that GP activity consists of two activities: (i) binding to the gly...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Makino Y,Fujii Y,Taniguchi M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic specificities of BPN' and Carlsberg subtilisins [EC 3.4.21.14] were examined with various nucleus-substituted derivatives of Nalpha-acetylated aromatic amino acid methyl esters for mapping their hydrophobic binding sites in comparison with that of alpha-chymotrypsin. The Carlsberg enzyme was generally much...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Karasaki Y,Ohno M

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver rhodanese [EC 2.8.1.1] purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation, CM-cellulose and Sephadex G-200 chromatography yielded two active fractions (I & II). Their molecular weights were estimated to be 1.75 X 10(4) (I) and 1.26 X 10(4) (II) by the gel filtration method. Kinetic studies revealed that Fraction I r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oi S

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OsCnfU-1A is a chloroplast-type Nfu-like protein that consists of tandem repeats sharing high sequence homology. Domain I of this protein, but not domain II, has a C-X-X-C motif that is thought to assemble an iron-sulphur cluster. Herein we report the solution structure of OsCnfU-1A domain I (73-153). Although OsCnfU-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saio T,Kumeta H,Ogura K,Yokochi M,Asayama M,Katoh S,Katoh E,Teshima K,Inagaki F

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When human erythrocytes subjected to a pressure of 2.0 kbar were incubated at 0 degree C and atmospheric pressure, hemoglobin was released from the membrane. Effects of drugs, salts, and phospholipid vesicles on hemoglobin release were examined. The hemoglobin release was suppressed by the addition of amphiphathic dru...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamaguchi T,Kuranoshita K,Harano T,Kimoto E

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed lipids extracted from human hepatoma HepG2 cells using a high performance liquid chromatograph equipped with a reversed phase column and found a compound with a mass spectrum showing certain diagnostic ion fragments of 1-methoxy-5-polyprenyl-phenol, a known intermediate of ubiquinone biosynthesis. Universa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kang DC,Takeshige K,Minakami S

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new peroxide compound (ML-X) was isolated from an autoxidation product of methyl linoleate and was determined as methyl 9-hydroperoxy-12, 13-epoxy-10-octadecenoate. This compound inhibited state 3 respiration of rat heart- and liver mitochondria when glutamate and malate were used as substrates, but not when the sub...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imagawa T,Kasai S,Matsui K,Nakamura T

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence and disulfide bridge location of HR2a, one of the hemorrhagic proteins isolated from the snake venom of Trimeresurus flavoviridis, have been determined by analysis of peptides derived from digests with cyanogen bromide, lysyl endopeptidase, trypsin, and Staphylococcus aureus V8 proteas...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyata T,Takeya H,Ozeki Y,Arakawa M,Tokunaga F,Iwanaga S,Omori-Satoh T

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p40(phox) of the phagocyte NADPH oxidase forms a complex with p67(phox) in cytosol, and coincidentally decreases in patients who lack p67(phox). Here we investigated the mode of translocation of p40(phox) to the membrane, its cytoskeletal localization on activation of the NADPH oxidase, and the dependency of its expre...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsunawaki S,Yoshikawa K

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Pi with sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle was studied using bromocresol purple (BCP) as a probe and a dual-wavelength spectrophotometer. Two kinds of absorption-intensity changes controlled by a low concentration of Ca2+ (greater than 10(-6)M) were observed after addit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamaru Y,Nomura K

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we demonstrated that the 2.6-kDa peptide extending from Arg177 to Tyr198 in subdomain 4 of rabbit skeletal actin bound to actin itself, inhibited the elongation of actin filament, and severed F-actin. The corresponding segment in actin, therefore, is thought to contain the most critical actin-actin contact...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hori K,Morita F,Matsuzawa F,Aikawa S

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transglutaminases (TGases, EC 2.3.2.13) have proved to be valuable enzymes for site-directed protein coupling via N(epsilon)-(gamma-L-glutamyl)lysine bonds. Their use in conjugate synthesis would overcome many problems caused by chemical reagents. In this approach, we show for the first time that two proteins with dif...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Bechtold U,Otterbach JT,Pasternack R,Fuchsbauer HL

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00